Michelle Reed handles a variety of complex civil litigation matters, focusing primarily on securities litigation in federal and state courts where she represents public companies, officers and directors in securities class actions and derivative lawsuits. Ms. Reed also represents companies and company insiders in investigations and enforcement actions by the SEC.
Ms. Reed’s practice also includes merger and acquisition disputes, breach of contract, business fraud and other business tort cases, managing all aspects of litigation, from the pleading stage through trial and appeal. Ms. Reed has also led document preservation and electronic discovery efforts, to minimize costs to clients and maximize effective data management.
Ms. Reed has assisted in securing numerous victories for clients, successfully obtaining dismissal of securities class actions, preventing class certification, procuring advancement of fees for corporate executives and avoiding SEC enforcement actions.
Ms. Reed received her B.A. with honors in economics and political science in 1999 and her J.D. summa cum laude in 2003 from Brigham Young University, where she was a member of Order of the Coif and the executive editor of the BYU Law Review. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association and its Litigation Section (Class Actions and Derivative Suits and Securities Litigation Committees), and the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit. She currently serves as co-chair of the Derivative Suits Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee. Ms. Reed has been named in a survey of her peers in the Texas legal field as a “Texas Rising Star” in securities litigation by Texas Monthly.
Ms. Reed has co-authored the following articles—
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“Shareholder M&A Lawsuits Are Common, Expensive and Usually Fruitless,” Executive Counsel, July/August 2007
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“The Cost of the Deal,” The Deal, June 4, 2007
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“How to Identify, Prevent and Investigate Accounting Fraud,” Wall Street Lawyer, Vol. 8, No. 11, April 2005
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“Due Diligence Standards for Underwriters After WorldCom,” Corporate Governance Advisor, March/April 2005
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“The Current Landscape of Securities Litigation,” Association of Corporate Counsel conference materials, October 25, 2004
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“External Consequences: Internal Investigations After Sarbanes-Oxley,” Directors Monthly, Vol. 28, No. 3, March 2004
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“Strategies for Defending Claims Under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933,” The Practical Litigator, Vol. 15, No. 2, March 2004.